Tort “Reform” Works–To Deprive Medical Malpractice Victims Of Their Right To Recourse
It’s always heartening and reassuring to see that large corporations that manufacture poisons for human consumption–think Phillip Morris here– have gotten their money’s worth from their efforts to promote the great lie that is tort “reform.” You know. It’s the same story, basically, repeated over and over again. The plaintiff with the faked injury who [...]
A Day In The Trenches, Or, How Med Mal Defense Lawyers Behave At EBTs
Yesterday, I witnessed a senior partner at a major medical malpractice defense firm act like a toddler. In fact, he became, before my eyes, the neighborhood kid who becomes angry when he does poorly in the backyard football game, and takes his football home. Let me set the scene. As is usually the case, I [...]
NYS Commission on Public Integrity Wants to Muzzle Me
Why would it want to do that? All I did was suggest that the Commission may have had ulterior motives when it dismissed, without so much as an investigation, an ethics complaint made by the Center for Justice and Democracy about the lack of balance on the Medicaid Redesign Team. And yet, today I received [...]